Where do we stand when it comes to digitalization in cities and regions? What experiences have the various players had? And what contribution can the federal, state and local governments make to ensure that the potential of digitalization and thus intelligent networking is widely used? These were the central questions of the DIV session “Intelligently networked cities & regions – bringing digitalization to the area” on 12 June at the Digital Summit.
It was correspondingly controversial: one of Christian von Reventlow’s (Chief Product/Innovation Officer at Deutsche Telekom AG) theses was that the cities of the future will be empty. The virtual and physical city will be one. At home, citizens will have the opportunity to travel to new worlds through virtual extensions of reality. Who will need to go outside the door? That’s the provocative thought. But as the digital possibilities become ever more diverse and complex, the number of interfaces predestined for an attack will also grow. So the digitalization of cities and regions is primarily a security issue? Not only. The panel also set other priorities: In particular, the expansion of infrastructure was a central point of discussion so that the possibilities of a gigabit society can even be considered. And the following factors are particularly important for this: the willingness of all stakeholders to implement this, including stable financing.
You can follow the arguments in the DIV session on the topic of the digitalization of cities and regions here:
In the summit special of the “Intelligent World” series, Christian Spanik reports on the DIV session “Intelligently networked cities & regions – bringing digitalization to the area”:
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